Everybody wants a box of chocolates
Feb. 25th, 2004 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaOK, I want opinions on chocolate.
Now, as previously discussed with some of you, I'm not an enormous fan of chocolate. Sure, I like it, but I don't really hold it in the kind of reverence that many do. It's a niceish, sweet tasting thing - sadly not the extreme sensual experience which some people seem to find it (and do they really, or are they just exaggerating ?)
So, what I want to know: how much chocolate is too much ? How many people actually don't think there is such a thing as too much ? People who are allergic/intolerant to chocolate (hello, half my family) are a different case. Would anyone seriously claim to be addicted to chocolate ?
For reference, I've eaten a Tw*x and two Cadbury's Roses in the last hour, and am now feeling distinctly queasy about the whole experience. Should have stopped after the Tw*x, really, but when someone hands anything edible round I eat some on reflex.
Update: is there any mileage in the idea that extreme dedication to the eating of chocolate is a female thing ? A quick mental survey of blokes of my acquaintance suggests "no", but some people seem to believe it quite firmly.
Now, as previously discussed with some of you, I'm not an enormous fan of chocolate. Sure, I like it, but I don't really hold it in the kind of reverence that many do. It's a niceish, sweet tasting thing - sadly not the extreme sensual experience which some people seem to find it (and do they really, or are they just exaggerating ?)
So, what I want to know: how much chocolate is too much ? How many people actually don't think there is such a thing as too much ? People who are allergic/intolerant to chocolate (hello, half my family) are a different case. Would anyone seriously claim to be addicted to chocolate ?
For reference, I've eaten a Tw*x and two Cadbury's Roses in the last hour, and am now feeling distinctly queasy about the whole experience. Should have stopped after the Tw*x, really, but when someone hands anything edible round I eat some on reflex.
Update: is there any mileage in the idea that extreme dedication to the eating of chocolate is a female thing ? A quick mental survey of blokes of my acquaintance suggests "no", but some people seem to believe it quite firmly.
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Date: 2004-02-25 08:17 am (UTC)I think I'm pretty close to 'waistcoatmark' when it come to chocolate. I've basically given it up for the last.... ohhh.... month and a bit. And frankly don't miss it at all.
On the other hand, if I have chocolate, even if not opened. I'll eat it and quickly at that. But I rarely get the urge to actually buy the damn stuff.
My personal choice is dark, dark chocolate and mint. So the bendicks bittermint is for me heaven. However ultimetly I can just consume vast ammounts of the stuff, although that may be more to do with my ability to just eat lots. That bit of the brain that goes "stop eating".... never really worked on me. If there's food, I can eat. In fact, if there's food, i have real trouble not eating it.
Makes buffet placse a) fantastic value and b) really bad for a diet.